HB2481 Summary

• Establishes the "Government Reduction and Efficiency Law of 2013" allowing county boards in counties with populations between 900,000-3,000,000 (contiguous to counties over 3,000,000) to dissolve appointed units of local government by ordinance.

• Requires a county board to order an audit of the unit within 30 days of proposing dissolution, documenting all claims, receipts, property, and debts before the county board can adopt a final dissolution ordinance 120 days later.

• Appoints a court-designated trustee-in-dissolution to manage the dissolved unit's affairs, including consolidating services, creating a transition plan, levying taxes if needed, and entering into intergovernmental agreements to transfer functions.

• Protects outstanding bonds and secured debts by requiring funds remain in separate accounts; allows property taxation to continue until all obligations are discharged; permits tax levies to be abated once debts are settled.

• Establishes that the State's Attorney represents the dissolved unit in litigation, the county treasurer and clerk assume treasury and secretary duties, and tax collection and pending lawsuits continue as if dissolution had not occurred.